NBA 2K24 Arcade Edition is I guess maybe a slightly cut-down version of NBA 2K24 for mobile devices. This is a pro basketball game based on the NBA with real player names and likenesses.

Game Modes

• Play Now - for an instant game
• My Career - create a player then go from the playgrounds to the big leagues
• The Greatest - play one of the great players or form one of the great teams
• The Association - play a full season where you can manage game strategy and trade players

Normal game play on an iPad is not easy even with UI on easy. I'm not sure I'd be good with a controller in any case. As usual you control the player with the ball and when you pass you control that player. On defense you control the closest defender and I guess you can switch to other players.

I just played The Association and played games with Simulcast which means it's an automated game and you have an overhead X's and O's view so you see these circles moving around (each circle has the player's last name, face and position) and the ball being passed and shot. More importantly perhaps you have crowd sounds and sportscaster comments (they use real sportscaster personalities and there is a lot of varied audio commentary and a lot is stitched together but you don't really notice that). It is like listening to an NBA on the radio while looking at a real-time X's and O's display.

With The Association you can play all the games, or Simulcast, or even just get the result of each game and concentrate on coaching and player personnel.

This is a fun distraction game even though mostly not my type of game.